Adolphe Belot Explained

Louis Marc Adolphe Belot
Birth Date:	6 November 1829
Birth Place:	Pointe-à-Pitre

Louis Marc Adolphe Belot was a French playwright and novelist. He was born on 6 November 1829 in Pointe-à-Pitre, and died on 18 December 1890 in Paris.

Biography

Adolphe Belot was the son of an attorney employed by the Pointe-à-Pitre court. Born in Le Havre, France, Belot was raised in the metropolis at the Sainte-Barbe college before obtaining his license at the Faculty of Law in Paris. In 1854, he was registered by the board of lawyers of Nancy.

After several trips to the Americas, he devoted himself to writing, publishing Le Châtiment in 1855 before approaching the theater with the comedy À la Campagne in 1857. In 1859, in collaboration with Charles Edmond Villetard de Prunières,^[1] he wrote Le Testament de César Girodot, a show which was performed over 500 times at the Odéon theater.

Belot wrote the novel Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife in 1870, centered around a naive young man and his eponymous wife who refuses to consummate their marriage. The book was an immense success, selling at least 66,000 copies and has been published in 33 editions around the world.

Belot died of pulmonary congestion at the age of 61, on 18 December 1890.

Belot fathered two daughters: Marthe and Jeanne, the latter of which became an actress at the Odéon theatre under the pseudonym of "Miss Belly". She died of typhoid fever in January 1899.

Theater works

• 1859 Un Secret de Famille, 5 acts, Théâtre de l'Ambigu
• 1860 La Vengeance du Mari, 3 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
• 1861 Les Parents Terribles, 3 acts, a collaboration with, Théâtre de l'Odéon
• 1862 Les Maris à Système, 3 acts, Théâtre du Gymnase
• 1862 Le Vrai Courage, 2 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• 1863 Les Indifférents, 4 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
• 1865 Le Passé de M. Jouanne, 4 acts, a collaboration with Henri Crisafulli, Théâtre du Gymnase
• 1865 L’Habitude et le Souvenir, 4 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• 1867 La Vénus de Gordes, with Ernest Daudet
• 1867 Les Souvenirs, 4 acts, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• 1868 Le Drame de la Rue de la Paix, 5 acts, Théâtre de l'Odéon
• 1868 Miss Multon, 3 acts, with, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 150 shows
• 1869 La Leçon du Jour, 4 acts, with Eugène Nus, Théâtre du Vaudeville
• 1871 L’Article 47, 5 acts, Théâtre de l’Ambigu, 100 shows
• 1873 La Marquise, 4 acts, with Eugène Nus, Théatre du Gymnase^[2]
• 1876 Fromont Jeune et Risler Aîné, 5 acts, (adaptation of a novel by Alphonse Daudet), Théâtre du Vaudeville
• 1880 Les Étrangleurs de Paris, a drama in 5 acts and 12 scenes, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
• 1885 Sapho,^[3] 5 acts, (adaptation of a novel by Alphonse Daudet), Théâtre du Gymnase; (an English translation by Elizabeth Beall Ginty^[4])

Short stories and novels

• "Un Cas de Conscience"
• Le Secret Terrible, a collaboration with, Dentu, Paris
• Le Parricide, a collaboration with Jules Dautin, Dentu, Paris
• Dacolard et Lubin (sequel to Le Parricide), a collaboration with Jules Dautin, Dentu, Paris
• La Sultane Parisienne, Dentu, Paris
• Nouvelles, 1857
• Trois nouvelles, 1863
• La Vénus de Gordes, a collaboration with Ernest Daudet, 1866^[5]
• Le Drame de la Rue de la Paix, Michel Lévy frères, Paris, 1867
• L'Article 47 (La fille de couleur; Le journal d'une jeune fille; La haute police), Dentu, Paris, 1870
• Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme, 1870
• La Femme de feu, 1872
• Hélène et Mathilde, 1874
• Les Mystères Mondains, 1875^[6]

Awards and honors

• Legion of Honour - 1867 ;

References

Footnotes

1. [:fr:Charles Edmond Villetard de Prunières]
2. Review of La Marquise. The Athenaeum. 2387. 26 July 1873. 122.
3. Book: Daudet . Alphonse . Belot . Adolphe . Sapho: pièce en cinq actes . 1893 . G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle . Paris . 4 June 2023 . fr.
4. Book: Daudet . Alphonse . Belot . Adolphe . NYC . Sappho: A Play in Five Acts . 1895 . F. Rullman . 4 June 2023.
5. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6539382x.texteImage La Vénus de Gordes
6. Book: Belot, Adolphe . Les Mystères Mondains . Dentu . 1875 . 10th . Google Books.

Bibliography

• Ernest Glaeser, Biographie nationale des contemporains : rédigée par une Société de gens de lettres sous la direction de M. Ernest Glaeser, Paris, Glaeser et cie, 1878, p. 838.
• Henri Adolphe Lara, Contribution de la Guadeloupe à la pensée française : 1635–1935, Paris, Jean Crès, 1936, p. 301.